Deakin University

---
aid: deakin
name: Deakin University
description: >-
  Deakin University is a public research university in Victoria, Australia, with
  campuses in Geelong, Warrnambool and Melbourne, ranked #197 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Like most universities, Deakin operates an
  integration-heavy IT estate (its SSO is a Shibboleth/SAML2 identity provider)
  but does not publish a public, self-service developer API portal. Its
  confirmed public, machine-readable footprint is concentrated in research
  infrastructure: the Deakin Research Online (DRO) repository runs on figshare
  (which exposes a public OAI-PMH and REST API), a public Data Portal for sharing
  research datasets, and an active GitHub organization. Most catalogued surfaces
  below are third-party-hosted or gated rather than first-party, documented APIs.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/deakin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Australia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: deakin:dro-oai
    name: Deakin Research Online (DRO) OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      Deakin Research Online is the university's research repository, now hosted
      on the figshare platform. It exposes research-output metadata for harvesting
      via the OAI-PMH protocol. The DRO host issues a bot-challenge response to
      automated clients; the underlying figshare OAI-PMH service is publicly
      reachable.
    humanURL: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
    tags: [ Research, Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, figshare ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://info.figshare.com/user-guide/how-to-use-figshares-oai-pmh-service/
  - aid: deakin:figshare-api
    name: figshare REST API (DRO platform)
    description: >-
      Deakin Research Online runs on figshare, whose public REST API (v2) provides
      programmatic access to articles, collections and metadata across hosted
      institutional repositories. This is a third-party platform API underpinning
      DRO rather than a Deakin-branded API.
    humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
    tags: [ Research, Repository, REST, figshare ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.figshare.com/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/deakin-figshare-api.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/deakin-article-schema.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/deakin-article-structure.json
      - type: Examples
        url: examples/deakin-get-article-example.json
      - type: Rules
        url: rules/deakin-rules.yml
      - type: Vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/deakin-vocabulary.yml
      - type: JSONLD
        url: json-ld/deakin-context.jsonld
  - aid: deakin:data-portal
    name: Deakin Data Portal
    description: >-
      A public portal for Deakin researchers and research groups to share data and
      collected materials with the Australian research community. It is a
      web-delivered data-sharing platform; no documented public API was confirmed,
      so it is catalogued as a data property rather than a documented API surface.
    humanURL: https://dataportal.deakin.edu.au/
    tags: [ Open Data, Research, Data Portal ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://dataportal.deakin.edu.au/
  - aid: deakin:sso
    name: Deakin Single Sign-On (Shibboleth/SAML2 IdP)
    description: >-
      Deakin operates a Shibboleth/SAML2 identity provider for single sign-on
      across university systems. The IdP metadata endpoint is publicly reachable,
      but this is federated SSO infrastructure for relying parties, not a
      documented public OAuth/OpenID developer API.
    humanURL: https://signon.deakin.edu.au/
    baseURL: https://signon.deakin.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
    tags: [ Identity, SSO, SAML, Shibboleth, Authentication ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://help.deakin.edu.au/login_locate_sso.do
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.deakin.edu.au/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/Deakin
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://au.linkedin.com/school/deakin-university/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://signon.deakin.edu.au/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/deakin-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/deakin-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/deakin-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]